Changing MIC Breakpoints: Do Mechanisms Count

Changing MIC Breakpoints: Do Mechanisms Count Changing MIC Breakpoints: Do Mechanisms Count

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CLSI Guidance on ESBL Testing • Will Tests for ESBLs and KPCs be needed with the new cephalosporin and carbapenem breakpoints for Enterobacteriaceae? CLSI says No. For patient management, tests for ESBLs and KPCs are not necessary If requested, tests for ESBLs and KPCs may be done for Infection Control purposes 6

New CLSI Guidelines 2010 • This decision was based on evaluation of pharmacokinetics-pharmacodynamics (PK-PD) properties and limited clinical trials • New interpretive criteria (breakpoints) establish for some (but not all) cephalosporins • Using new breakpoints treatment decisions can be based solely on MIC alone • “It’s all about the MIC stupid” 7

New CLSI Guidelines 2010<br />

• This decision was based on evaluation of<br />

pharmacokinetics-pharmacodynamics (PK-PD)<br />

properties and limited clinical trials<br />

• New interpretive criteria (breakpoints) establish<br />

for some (but not all) cephalosporins<br />

• Using new breakpoints treatment decisions can<br />

be based solely on <strong>MIC</strong> alone<br />

• “It’s all about the <strong>MIC</strong> stupid”<br />

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